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13# Copyright 2015 Garrett D'Amore <garrett@damore.org>
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15
16The configuration files in this directory are structured using the
17syntax defined in the ../README file.  They make use of the compilation
18environments declared in ../compilation.cfg, and are processed by the
19symbols test.
20
21We have organized the files by header file, that is the tests for symbols
22declared in a header file (e.g. <unistd.h> appear in a file based on that
23header file's name (e.g. unistd_h.cfg.)  This is purely for convenience.
24
25Within these various declarations, we have the following field types:
26
27<envs>    This is a list of compilation environments where the symbol
28          should be legal.  To indicate that the symbol must not be legal
29          an environment group can be prefixed with "-".  For example,
30          "SUS+ -SUSv4+" indicates a symbol that is legal in all SUS
31	  environments up to SUSv3, and was removed in SUSv4 and subsequent
32          versions of SUS.  As you can see, we can list multiple environments
33          or environment groups, and we can add or remove to previous groups
34          with subsequent ones.
35
36<name>    This is a symbol name.  It follows the rules for C symbol names.
37
38<header>  This is a header file, for example, unistd.h.  Conventionally,
39          the header files used should match the file where the test is
40          declared.
41
42<type>    This is a C type.  Function types can be declared without their
43          names, e.g. "void (*)(int)".  Structures (e.g. "struct stat") and
44          pointer types (e.g. "pthead_t *") are legal as well.
45
46Here are the types of declarations in these files:
47
48type | <name> | <header> | <envs>
49
50    Tests for a C type with <name>.  The test verifies that a variable with
51    this type can be declared when the <header> is included.
52
53value | <name> | <type> | <header> | <envs>
54
55    Tests for a value named <name>, of type <type>.  The test attempts to
56    assign the given value to a scratch variable declared with the given
57    type.  The value can be a macro or other C symbol.
58
59func | <name> | <type> | <type> [; <type> ]... | <header> | <envs>
60
61    Tests whether a function <name>, returning the first <type>, and
62    taking arguments of following <type> values, is declared.  Note that
63    the argument types are separated by semicolons.  For varargs style
64    functions, leave out the ... part.  For function declarations
65    that have no declared arguments, either void can specified, or
66    the type list can be omitted.
67
68Examples:
69
70    type | size_t | sys/types.h | ALL
71    value | NULL | void * | stdlib.h | ALL
72    func strnlen | int | const char *; int | string.h | ALL
73